Racine

Racine is a city in and the county seat of Racine County, Wisconsin. In November 1674, the first Frenchmen visited the area, and, in 1791, they established a trading post near Lake Michigan. Following the Black Hawk War of 1832, Yankees from upstate New York and New England settled the area, founding a village named "Racine" after the French word for "root". Between the American Civil War and World War I, Czech, Danish, and German immigrants arrived in the region, and African-Americans began to arrive in the city during the postwar Great Migration, followed by Mexicans during the 1920s. It became home to automobile and malted milk factories, and, in 2018, Racine had a population of 77,432 people.